You’re missing my point, which is that relay can already delete your content at will. All I’m suggesting is that it should be possible for users to sign their own content deletion events that relays and clients honor. It’s already possible (and very easy) for law enforcement to pressure a relay operator into turning over information on their users.

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Who will stop me if I build a relay that saves all data and purges every 24 hours all data except the notes that had a deletion request? No one can stop me, so if I don't build it to repost everything that got 'deleted', the governments will do it in secret. To achieve what you're looking for, you would have to "close" nostr, aka turn it into a centralized database like X.

No one can stop you, and everyone by default should assume that governments are scraping everything anyway. I’m well aware that once information is public there is no way to claw it back, but as far as obstacles to user adoption, deletion from relays is still right at the top.